6 Best detective books like Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29) by Archer Mayor

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Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

By: Archer Mayor

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Joe Gunther and the VBI team are investigating a murder and an arson case--both potentially related…

If you liked the detective plot in Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29) by Archer Mayor , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Luck and Judgement (D.C. Smith #3)

By: Peter Grainger

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, there seem to be just two possible explan… read more

Similar categories in Peter Grainger's Luck and Judgement (D.C. Smith #3) book and Archer Mayor's Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Vision (Doc Ford Mystery #18) by Randy Wayne White

2. Night Vision (Doc Ford Mystery #18)

By: Randy Wayne White

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Doc Ford is on a collision course with death in this extraordinary new novel from the New York Time… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Murder Being Once Done (Inspector Wexford, #7)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.87

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It see… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of An Accidental Death (D.C. Smith #1) by None

4. An Accidental Death (D.C. Smith #1)

By: None

3.68

Format: 265 pages,

The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk coun… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rags of Time (D.C. Smith #6) by Peter Grainger

5. The Rags of Time (D.C. Smith #6)

By: Peter Grainger

3.50

Format: 240 pages,

Mark Randall lay dead in a field near Lowacre long before Smith had done what he had to do in Belfa… read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Sound of Broken Glass (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #15)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the past . . . On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragic… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Missing File

By: D.A. Mishani , Steven Cohen

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Missing File, Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

8. Floats The Dark Shadow

By: Yves Fey

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Young American painter Theodora Faraday struggles to become an artist in Belle Epoque Paris. She's … read more

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9. The Devil's Trinity

By: Michael Parker

4.26

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more

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  • fiction
"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

10. Persons of Interest (D.C. Smith #4)

By: Peter Grainger

3.75

Format: 320 pages,

In the peace and tranquillity of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone beg… read more

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11. In This Bright Future (D.C. Smith #5)

By: Peter Grainger

3.84

Format: 95 pages,

Two weeks of rest and recuperation - that's what the doctor ordered. Detective Sergeant DC Smith co… read more

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12. The Whites

By: Richard Price , Harry Brandt

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his… read more

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13. But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation

By: Robert Partridge

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

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14. Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

By: Gabriel F.W. Koch

4.30

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fiancée has committed suicide. Marlowe simply … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Death is the ultimate test of faith."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

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15. Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludef… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Jack? It’s Margeaux."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"What is it about being ill and wanting to go home? This time there was no Katy to boat sit, so I left Emma out on the deck where she had access to her Emma cage. I closed up as best I could and decid…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to s…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

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16. The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

By: J.K. Franko

4.33

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do if the law failed you? The college Halloween party was supposed to be a night… read more

Similar categories in J.K. Franko's The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5) book and Archer Mayor's Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

  • thriller
  • fiction
"From the start, I told you! We should’a just handled this ourselves. You should’ve handled it the way my daddy would’ve."

-J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

"And I looked out at the dog, and McCoy trying to cradle her in one arm and cut the rope with t’other, and I said, ‘What goes around, comes around, daddy.’ “And he just smiled. A wicked smile. And he …"

-J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

"It was golden hour in Tarrytown. An incandescent sun cast long shadows that pointed in unison toward nightfall. Birds sang. But their melodies were drowned out by crescendos of cicadas’ chattering. N…"

-J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

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17. O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

By: A.G. Russo

4.34

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

*Author "I have never used AI in my writing." A.G. RussoThe homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New … read more

Similar categories in A.G. Russo's O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted book and Archer Mayor's Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

  • mystery
"A uniformed cop around 6’4"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them."

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

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18. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.37

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more

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"Swamp."

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Why was bail denied?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"How was he murdered?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

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19. Mind's Eye (Inspector Van Veeteren, #1)

By: Håkan Nesser

3.59

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Håkan Nesser is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now the n… read more

Similar categories in Håkan Nesser's Mind's Eye (Inspector Van Veeteren, #1) book and Archer Mayor's Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cruel as the Grave (Bill Slider, #22) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

20. Cruel as the Grave (Bill Slider, #22)

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The murder of a personal fitness trainer draws DCI Bill Slider and his team into a baffling investi… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles's Cruel as the Grave (Bill Slider, #22) book and Archer Mayor's Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

By: Archer Mayor

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Joe Gunther and the VBI team are investigating a murder and an arson case--both potentially related… read more

Similar categories in Archer Mayor's Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29) book and Archer Mayor's Bury the Lead (Joe Gunther #29)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • conspiracy theories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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